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Peer-reviewedCC BY-NCTrauma surgery & acute care open

Defying Gravity: Strategies for Reducing the Impact of Falls - AAST Virtual Grand Rounds.

  • Christina L Jacovides1
  • Asanthi Ratnasekera2
  • Tanya Egodage3
  • Adin Tyler Putnam4
  • Hiyori S Roberts5
  • Audrey R Yang6
  • Thomas K Duncan7
  • D'Andrea Joseph8
  • Stephanie Bonne9,10
  • Sigrid Burruss11
11 affiliations
  1. 1Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
  2. 2Surgery, Christiana Care Health Services, Newark, Delaware, USA.
  3. 3Surgery, Cooper University Health Care, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
  4. 4Baystate Health, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.
  5. 5Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
  6. 6The University of Arizona College of Medicine Tucson, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
  7. 7Ventura County Medical Center, Ventura, California, USA.
  8. 8Surgery, NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island, Mineola, New York, USA.
  9. 9Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, Illinois, USA.
  10. 10New Jersey, USA.
  11. 11University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
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Abstract

Injuries from falls and their sequelae represent a significant source of morbidity and mortality. This impact is predominantly felt by patients with pre-existing health conditions and poor health. For these patients, comorbidities, frailty, use of anticoagulation, and other factors result in the development of severe injuries after relatively low-impact falls. Many strategies exist to counter the negative effects of falls-both thinking about how to reduce the incidence of falls by engaging in fall prevention strategies and techniques for reducing trip hazards or finding ways to minimize the potential impact of falls on vulnerable populations. These efforts can be combined to create local and regional fall-prevention networks, which have been highly successful and effective in addressing fall risk. This publication summarizes the contents of an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma's Virtual Grand Rounds that highlighted the epidemiology of falls, the effects of falls, and strategies for countering these effects at individual and locoregional levels.

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@article{jacovides2026defying,
  title = {{Defying Gravity: Strategies for Reducing the Impact of Falls - AAST Virtual Grand Rounds.}},
  author = {Christina L Jacovides and Asanthi Ratnasekera and Tanya Egodage and Adin Tyler Putnam and Hiyori S Roberts and Audrey R Yang and Thomas K Duncan and D'Andrea Joseph and Stephanie Bonne and Sigrid Burruss},
  journal = {Trauma surgery \& acute care open},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.1136/tsaco-2025-002221},
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42920948},
  note = {CC BY-NC},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Defying Gravity: Strategies for Reducing the Impact of Falls - AAST Virtual Grand Rounds.
AU  - Christina L Jacovides
AU  - Asanthi Ratnasekera
AU  - Tanya Egodage
AU  - Adin Tyler Putnam
AU  - Hiyori S Roberts
AU  - Audrey R Yang
AU  - Thomas K Duncan
AU  - D'Andrea Joseph
AU  - Stephanie Bonne
AU  - Sigrid Burruss
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/16
JO  - Trauma surgery & acute care open
DO  - 10.1136/tsaco-2025-002221
UR  - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42920948
AB  - Injuries from falls and their sequelae represent a significant source of morbidity and mortality. This impact is predominantly felt by patients with pre-existing health conditions and poor health. For these patients, comorbidities, frailty, use of anticoagulation, and other factors result in the development of severe injuries after relatively low-impact falls. Many strategies exist to counter the negative effects of falls-both thinking about how to reduce the incidence of falls by engaging in fall prevention strategies and techniques for reducing trip hazards or finding ways to minimize the potential impact of falls on vulnerable populations. These efforts can be combined to create local and regional fall-prevention networks, which have been highly successful and effective in addressing fall risk. This publication summarizes the contents of an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma's Virtual Grand Rounds that highlighted the epidemiology of falls, the effects of falls, and strategies for countering these effects at individual and locoregional levels.
SN  - 2397-5776
ER  -